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Google Council Bluffs Data Center

Google Council Bluffs Data Center

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Iowa (MISO)

Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Operating since 2007; $20B+ cumulative Iowa investment.

Capacity
—
GPUs (est.)
—
Capex
—
Announced
—
Target operational
—

Delivery health score

63.5 /100
63.5/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

65 /100
65/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Google Council Bluffs Data Center No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Google Council Bluffs Data Center No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Google Council Bluffs Data Center No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Google Council Bluffs Data Center No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2007-01-01).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Announcement Milestone "Announcement" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2025-01-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Google Council Bluffs Data Center Newest schedule evidence is 2025-01-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

  2. Announcement

    Achieved

    Announcement · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Google
Owner
— —
NextEra Energy
Utility Provider
— —

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. E2
    Google Data Centers - Iowa

    Google Data Centers · backs: actual date, status

    https://datacenters.google/locations/iowa/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. E2
    Google Data Centers - Iowa

    Google Data Centers